Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-04-14
THE CAR ROBBERS.

THE CAR RuBBERs.
Further Particulars Relative 10 the
Panhandle Arrest.
Pitfsburg, April 12-The Wholesale
{ rrests of employees Of the Panhandle
railroad for robblng freight trains con-
tinues the topic OF conversation among
railroad men and citizens generally.
Superintendent Taylor's office was
besleged from early morning by dozens
OF men in search OF employment, and
many OF them were given employment.
The road 10 now fully equipped, and
there is no delay in the movement OF
freight. No arrests have been reported
since last night, and 1t is thought no
more will be made in this city.
Special Agent Rice said, regarding
the probability OF the conviction of the
men Low in Jail, that of the sixty men
now under arrest not more than one, or
possibly two, OF them stood any chance
OF being shown not guilty. Said he:
We had our evidence. 30 complete we
did not make an arrest until we had
sufficient proof to show that every man
was guilty. We expect to make eight
or ten more arrests of men who worked
successfully for Q time on the road and
then, for fear OF detection, took positions
on other lines. This Will swell the total
number of arrests to sixty-eight OF
seventy.
j. Il. Dunlap, who made o confession
IN which he said the stealings had been
going on for months, said he could moi
give the names of the men implicated
for Tear Of being killed. Dunlap said
there wRs no organization among the
robbers but 1t was o common under.
standing that each man should take all
he could and dispose Of it to the
best advantage. The officers OF the
road think the plunderers were organ.
ized, and when q new man entered the
service of the road, if he was thought te
be the right kind of q fellow, he was
initiated into the gang with q llgid oatt
binding him to secrecy. Dunlap sale
fences were located in New Philadelphia
DennisoD, S~teuhenville, Cincinnati, nno
Pittsburg; also in Columbus.
A telegram from Harrisburg, Pa.
states that Q bill was introduced in the
state Legislature last night which is tt
cover such cases as the railroad Cal
robberies brought to light yesterday.
There was q consultation this morn
ing between Assistant District Attorney
Pagan and john e. Hampton, attorne,
for the Pennsylvania company, in regard
to the Indictment and trials of the prison
ers. The trials will be pushed as speed
~ as possible. II 10 believed that
large number OF men will plead guilt,
on n or two charges and thus escap'
trial on the accumulation Of charges
and q number of petty fellows. whose
t~stealing was trihing will be discharged
and told to leave this part of the coun.
try. The wages of the men against
whom charges have been made have beef
withheld by the company on the ground
that the men owe much more to- tn
company than is due them. There il
but little doubt that the present expos
ure will lead to others on other roads
and some OF these are il the PennsY.
vsnia conpany's system and some lol
the Baltimore and Ohio. It is sait
that the stealing on these roads. was no
10 light and tina
through the aid Of teamsters and others
large quantities OF pig iron and manufac
tured steel have been stolen from car
in Pittsbnrg and in several other cite
not far away. These cases will be worket
up soon.
But three additional arrests were mad
to-day. The first one was Elmer Young
q Pan Handle brakeman, arrested q
East Palestine, O.. In his house larg
quantities of goods snpposedto have beel
stolen were recovered. About noon ]
x. Mullen q brakeman against whom
there are several charges, walked int,
Deputy Mayor Gripp'e office and CAV
himself up. A little later in the do,
James L. Armstsong, for whom q warran
was out, did the same the thing and bot
were placed behind the bars. During th
day ten OF the prisoners were release,
tupon bail, the bond required being SIS,
900 upon each charge.